Brighton Pride 2018

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Churchill Square

PRIDE PARADE

The Pride Community Parade is one of the biggest and brightest events in Brighton & Hove’s diary, with over 300,000 people pouring out into the city’s streets to participate in and watch on as an all-singing, all-dancing carnival of colour wends its way from the seafront to the festival site.

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The New Pride weekend community festival on Sunday 5th August 2018

Brighton & Hove Pride is a Pride to be proud of. Alongside the smiles, sunshine and good times, Brighton Pride’s sole ethos is to promote tolerance and diversity within our communities and to organise inclusive events. Supporting our local charities and good causes is the cornerstone of our Pride, we are a ‘Pride with Purpose’

Firmly established as the UK’s most popular international Pride Festival, Brighton Pride attracts a diverse demographic audience from across the globe and is singularly the most popular visitor attraction in the City’s event calendar.

Community

Brighton Pride 2018 is all set to be a riot of colour as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic Rainbow Flag with our theme ‘Colour My World’.

Originally commissioned by politician and activist Harvey Milk and devised by artist Gilbert Baker in San Francisco in 1978, the rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) pride and LGBT+ social movements. The flag has no rules, no protocol that governs its display and is the community’s for the taking.

The eight colour Rainbow Flag reminds us that ours is a diverse community –composed of people with a variety of individual tastes of which we should all be proud.

Pride has evolved over the years with more communities coming together to celebrate every aspect of our city, regardless of sexuality, race, gender, age or ability. It’s important not to go back to themes that trivialise the important message behind the Pride Celebration and to highlight the lives and struggles of LGBT+ people across the world as we strive for equality for all.

Emergency services prepare for ‘biggest and the best’ UK Pride

Sussex Police & the South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) are both preparing for Pride 2018, which is said to be the ‘biggest and the best in the UK’.

South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is expecting a large turnout of its staff and volunteers to participate in the Brighton and Hove Pride parade this weekend (Saturday 4 August).

The Trust also urge people to help by ‘being sensible and looking out for each other’ over what is always one of the busiest weekends in the city. Ambulance crews, emergency operations centre staff and volunteers will be working hard, across the Trust’s region, to provide people with the help they require.

Footage of Paddy Power at Brighton and Hove Pride 2018 and the ‘empty bus’ stunt for LGBT Premier League players, highlighting the fact there are no ‘out’ male footballers as role models in the English top flight divisions

Britney Spears

“Tear Down This Wall”

For 50 years members of the LGBTQ+ community have been met with contempt, arrested, assaulted, ridiculed and discriminated against. Many brave people literally fought for the freedoms we are embracing today. Gay Pride is only now being embraced by years of education along with having to demand equality, rights, dignity and respect which has meant gradually braking down many forms of walls and barriers.

So it breaks my heart to see the huge wall built around Preston Park for Britney Spears to begin her European tour. Creating something so ironic and yet symbolic to the community who are meant to be fully recognised this weekend.

When there are no more hate attacks, homophobic rhetoric, discrimination or inequalities. The day when anyone can walk down the street without fear of violence because of who they are holding hands with. A world where everyone has the “Freedom To Live” then and only then should we truly celebrate our achievements. We have come a long way but there is still so much yet to be done.

“Time” they say “waits for no man”. So, whilst the seasons change and we have dark cold nights to look forward to, spring has sprung across the southern hemisphere. With the help of a very dear friend, we hope to bring you some rays of sunshine to brighten the most darkest of nights. I am truly honoured to announce […]